Body Double : : The Author Incarnate in the Cinema / / Lucy Fischer.

Body Double explores the myriad ways that film artists have represented the creative process. In this highly innovative work, Lucy Fischer draws on a neglected element of auteur studies to show that filmmakers frequently raise questions about the paradoxes of authorship by portraying the onscreen wr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 41 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Screen Author - Wanted: Dead or Alive
  • 1. Typecasting the Author
  • 2. Beyond Adaptation: The Writer as Filmmaker
  • 3. The Author at the Dream Factory: The Screenwriter and the Movies
  • 4. The Authoress: Textuality as Sexuality
  • 5. Writing Pain: The Infirm Author
  • 6. Cinécriture: Word and Image
  • 7. Corpus and Oeuvre: Authorship and the Body
  • 8. Stealing Beauty: The Reader, the Critic, and the Appropriation of the Authorial Voice
  • Afterword: Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
  • Notes
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author